[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Suggestion/idea

[Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

Sunday 24 February 2002 02.12 skrev Guillermo Luis Grinblat:
> Hi,
>
> I write to propose the use of a spherical world map. With 12 pentagons
> and a variable number of hexagons a figure that looks like a sphere can
> be made. Here's a picture of a 4500~ tile map of Earth. With a map like
> this, the polar regions would be as playable as any other region and it
> is much more realistic than a torus map.

This has been discussed many times:

http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200001/msg00439.html
http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200003/msg00611.html
http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200008/msg00619.html

Did you make that image? Would you participate in the implementation?